NSG4692 — Health Promotion and Wellness
Explores nursing health promotion strategies to facilitate individual, group, and community health and wellness across the lifespan. The development of disease states and methods to prevent or decrease risk factors will be discussed. Emphasis is on the role of the professional nurse in planning and implementing effective teaching and interventional behaviors. Prerequisite: Admission to the Nursing Program. NSG 4709/NSG 4709L. Adult Health III. This course provides the opportunity to examine and practice concepts, research, issues and trends in caring for adults with complex, multisystem healthcare needs in structured and unstructured settings. Content includes managing nurse resources, delegation, patient progress through the continuum of care, and skills practice at a competency level necessary to assume the beginning level as a professional nurse. Course structure includes 4 credits lecture and 5 credits clinical lab. Prerequisite: NSG 4656 Adult Health II. NSG 4714/NSG 4714L. Community Based Nursing. This course introduces students to the basic concepts of community based nursing. Students gain an understanding of community resources with an emphasis on community based settings, disease states, community health models and theories, barriers to healthcare services, and the needs of vulnerable populations. Course structure includes 3 credits lecture and 1 credit clinical lab. Prerequisite: Admission to the Nursing Program.